Ode to an encampment
by Sam Friedman
Tempest’s Sam Friedman offers this ode to faculty, students, staff and others who have camped in solidarity with Palestine.
South Africa’s case against Israel
The struggle against apartheid then and now
by Helen ScottHelen Scott explains the significance of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel and reflects on the comparison between anti-apartheid struggles in the two countries.
The Labour Party and the UK elections
by Pat Stack
Pat Stack looks at the prospects for the Labour Party campaign in the UK.
Answering the call to fight injustice
An interview with Barbara Smith
by Ashley SmithTempest’s Ashley Smith interviews groundbreaking Black feminist Barbara Smith about uprisings both present and past.
Rosa Luxemburg and the democratic road to socialist revolution
by John Marot
John Marot explains how Luxemburg’s ideas of revolutionary democracy developed in light of the German Revolution.
Pretty sure this FedEx job will kill me
Scenes from the social crisis
by Malli NathConditions at FedEx have always been brutal, but as Malli Nath writes, climate change is making a bad situation more dangerous.
Resisting authoritarianism in the Caucasus
Interview with Georgians about their struggle to defend democracy
by Tempest and Posle MediaIn this joint interview conducted on behalf of Tempest and Posle Media, Georgian activists and scholars Ia Eradze, Giorgi Kartvelishvili, Luka Nakhutsrishvili, Tamar Qeburia, and Lela Rekhviashvili answer questions about the roots, nature, and trajectory of the country’s social movements and the future of Georgia.
BDS is about justice, not antisemitism
by Barnaby Raine
Historian Barnaby Raine examines the myths Israel creates in order to perpetuate its occupation of Palestine – including the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
In bird flu, capitalism is the culprit
But will the avian influenza H5N1 kill us all?
by Sam FriedmanSam Friedman discusses the role of capitalism in the H5N1 virus’s potential to mutate and become a pandemic.
The (not so) new red scare
Zionists weaponize “antisemitism” to crack down on academic freedom
by Dana CloudDana Cloud describes the crackdown on scholars in the Cal State system as an example of the broader pattern of weaponizing the charge of “antisemitism” against faculty and students who have spoken out against the Zionist genocide in Gaza.